Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter. It will not arrive until 2030 but what it finds could change what we know about life in ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

A lander will drill for chemical evidence ... also known as table salt, on Europa a year ago. The moon orbits Jupiter every 3.5 days.

Europa Clipper Mission: US space agency NASA has launched a spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter’s moon, to ascertain if it can support life in the ocean beneath its icy shell. This USD 5 billion ...